Sad Tales
The Accounts of White-Collar Defendants and the Decision to Sanction
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9213488 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mitchell Lewis Rothman (Hamline University, corresponding author), Robert P Gandossy (Yale University) |
| Year | 1982 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 449-473 |
| Publication date | 1982-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Pacific Sociological Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0030-8919 • E-ISSN: 2330-0736 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1388924 |
| OpenAlex | W2800289100 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 16 |
| References cited | 42 |
In the criminal justice system, as in everyday life, strategies of self-presentation play a critical role. This article examines the accounts convicted white-collar offenders provide while explaining their illegal behavior to federal probation officers. Accounts are described and classified; then, after a scale reflecting the degree to which they conform to judicial preferences regarding post-conviction explanations is defined, the role accounts play in the sentencing process is identified. Although the content and quality of defendants' stories do not affect sentencing decisions directly, they do materially influence the probation officers' evaluations of defendants. These evaluations are, in turn, a significant factor in the decision to sanction
Affect (linguistics) · Conviction · Criminal justice · Criminology · Economic Justice · Political science · Presentation (obstetrics) · Quality (philosophy) · White (mutation) · White-collar crime · Crime Patterns and Interventions · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Law · Psychology · Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending · Social Psychology
Are White-Collar and Common Offenders the Same? An Empirical and Theoretical Critique of a Recently Proposed General Theory of Crime
Crime and the Average American
The Origin of White Collar Criminality? – Exploring a Gene x Environment Interaction Hypothesis
Social Psychological Approaches to the Perception of Ethical Dilemmas
Race, ethnicity, and social change
Gender and Varieties of White‐collar Crime
Denying the Guilty Mind
There Must Be Some Type of Misunderstanding, There Must Be Some Kind of Mistake
Accounts of professional misdeeds
Patterns in Account-Giving among White Collar Criminals
Tax Evasion and Benefit Fraud
Social Strain or Self-Control
Dialing for Dollars
"From Apprehension to Fascination With "Dog Lab
Sad Tales in Institutions
A Thousand Pardons
Wayward Puritans
Controlling Delinquents
The Law of Primitive Man
Partial Justice
Criminal Sentences
The Social Organization of Arrest
Alibis and Aliases
Notes on the Sociology of Deviance
Negotiating Reality
Race, Judicial Discretion, and the Death Penalty
Social and Cultural Dynamics
Social and Cultural Dynamics
Improving Data Analysis in Political Science
The Honoring of Accounts
The Differential Sentencing of White-Collar Offenders in Ten Federal District Courts
Determinants of Juvenile Court Dispositions
Accounts
Police Control of Juveniles
Socioeconomic Status and Criminal Sentencing
Situated Actions and Vocabularies of Motive
Techniques of Neutralization
The Influence of Income and Other Factors on Whether Criminal Defendants go to Prison
Cultivating Clients in the Competition for Partnership
The Social and Legal Construction of Criminal Justice
Factors Affecting Postarrest Dispositions
Drinking and Deviance Disavowal
County Lunacy Commission Hearings
The Significance and Interpretation of Replies to Motivational Questions
Police Encounters With Juveniles
Conditions of Successful Degradation Ceremonies
| Unique citing works | 16 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,39 |
| Citation span | 1985 - 2025 (41) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 16 |